Photographic Quotes

Quotes

Many thanks to Nick Wright for compiling the list

You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
Ansel Adams
A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.
Annie Leibovitz
Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field.
Peter Adams
I don’t trust words. I trust pictures.
Gilles Peress
It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.
Alfred Eisenstaedt
Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.
Diane Arbus
If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.
Robert Capa
Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.
Marc Riboud

Your first 1,000 photographs are your worst.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.
Andy Warhol
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
Dorothea Lange
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
Ansel Adams
Photography helps people to see.
Berenice Abbott
What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
Karl Lagerfeld
When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.
Alfred Eisenstaedt